Hottest Apple tech of 2025 + New iPhone 18 intel! (CultCast #680)
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🗓️ 4 January 2025
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The next big leap for iPhone cameras, the coolest Apple products coming in 2025, how to get free Apple TV+ — and our last picks for the best of 2024!
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This week’s stories:
2026 iPhone 18 Pro may feature a game-changing variable aperture camera
- Apple could adopt a variable aperture system for the iPhone 18 Pro’s main camera that would enable the device to adjust the aperture size and light intake depending on surroundings.
Apple TV+ kicks off 2025 with free streaming weekend
- Apple TV+ will open its doors to all for an unprecedented free streaming weekend, January 3-5, 2025. That gives everyone unlimited access to its entire catalog of original content.
Apple in 2025: 5 things that could wow us
- Apple will launch several products in 2025, but these are the 5 things from the company that could wow us.
MacRumors: Redesigned Magic Mouse With Touch and Voice Controls Reportedly Coming in 2026
- A completely redesigned version of the Magic Mouse featuring touch and voice controls is coming in 2026, a Korean leaker claims.
Best of 2024:
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| 0:44.3 | Hello! And welcome to the Colcastie Best 30 plus Spinapped conversation you're going to hear |
| 0:52.3 | all week long I'm your host everyone |
| 0:54.9 | that should join me today is kicking off 2025 with an improved coltomac headquarters security system |
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| 1:19.1 | also with us this year he'll be upgrading to the newton message pad 2100 boasting 162 megahertz |
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